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Coldwater

(817 posts)
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 05:12 AM Nov 1

America will soon be one large Prison [View all]

Not just the new Immigrant Detention Facilities that are going up across the country that will hold tens of thousands but also trumps new plan to eliminate homelessness by arresting people living on the streets.

Trump’s executive order directs the U.S. attorney general to “seek, in appropriate cases, the reversal of Federal or State judicial precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United States’ policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time.”

While this proposed facility in Utah looks harmless enough and humane, the truth is it will house/imprison people who don’t want to be there, who can't leave, and the facility will be staffed by low wage overworked employees, in a high stress environment who are more likely to brutalize the patients than treat them.


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During Stalin's Great Purge, over a million people were killed. Another million sent to prison. Irish_Dem Nov 1 #1
Kissinger and our CIA gab13by13 Nov 1 #4
Those detention centers won't sit empty long after the illegal immigrants are gone. bluedigger Nov 1 #2
and some still think that fence was meant... ret5hd Nov 1 #3
Will it matter if I buy stock in private prisons, (concentration camps) gab13by13 Nov 1 #5
your dividends can be... ret5hd Nov 1 #6
And we're all on his list somewhere.. Joinfortmill Nov 1 #7
We have been living in a 'nice' prison... Hope22 Nov 1 #8
"Boating on the Great Lakes... has been anything but pleasant." WestMichRad Nov 1 #11
Back as early as Homeland 'Security's birth Hope22 Nov 1 #20
Thank you for bringing this information. I had not been aware of this & find it interesting (and a bit frightening) . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2 #23
As far as I'm concerned, we are all prisoners now. n/t ReRe Nov 1 #9
Reread the Grapes of Wrath... The Great Rewind continues JCMach1 Nov 1 #10
Building the wall was a tell about imprisoning us all within the country. Efilroft Sul Nov 1 #12
Yep. If things go completely rotten they'll lock us all in... hunter Nov 1 #16
The US has some of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with most of them in red states. Lonestarblue Nov 1 #13
"this website"? What website? It is important to pay attention to details, like website links Bernardo de La Paz Nov 1 #19
Sorry. I just neglected to copy and paste the website, which I've now done. Lonestarblue Nov 2 #21
Thank you. That was quite interesting to see the states and countries compared. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2 #22
We're all over thinking this gerryatwork Nov 1 #14
We can't possibly defund the police, so.... WhiskeyGrinder Nov 1 #15
More than a little Stalinist it would seem. Critics of the regime, if not killed, were deemed insane. NNadir Nov 1 #17
Miller has feared the year 2043 for some time. Norbert Nov 1 #18
If so, I can't wait until someone shivs the "warden" and we can all bust out: RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Nov 2 #24
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